Regina Rifles - 6 June 1944

[klambie]

Mark,

Thanks for the info. Room for further research, but some good ideas on places to start. Managed to find my notes of part of the Overlord Plan in the War Diary of 3 CID.

Landing Table	Craft Ready	Code #		Landing		Marching	LCA's
Index #		to Beach			Sector		Parties

First Wave:
1044-1048	H+5 min		744/1 J14 LSI	Nan Green	127		1044-1048
1050-1054	H+5 min		744/1 J15 LSI	Nan Green	127		1050-1054
- includes a few RRR Pioneer Sec, 2Pl from 6 Fd Coy, 6 FOO's from 13 Fd Regt

Second Wave:
1068-1073	H+20 min	744/1 J16 LSI	Nan Green	127		1068-1073
1074-1079	H+20 min	744/1 J17 LSI	Nan Green	127		1068-1073
- extra LCA for extras from Pnr, Mortar, ATk Pl and other associated units

The numbers are more uniform than I had thought (127 per LSI), and don't really match up with the numbers in my original post. Appears the counts on any given day may have been broken up a bit between multiple vessels, making it tough for me to match names to vessels as I might have hoped.

The other question is related to the ship #'s shown in these lists. I would guess that J14, J15, etc. referred to specific LSI's within Prince Henry's group? With further research, am I correct in thinking I may be able to match those numbers to ship names in your post?

I see some of the same numbers (J15 and J16 specifically) landing the first wave of reinforcements on Mike Sector during the '2nd Ferry Service' (presumably on the second tide on D-Day). My information has those reinforcements embarking at the same time as the assault waves on June 1, etc., so I guess I've figured out that both assault troops and reinforcements were on the same LSI's.

Apologies for my woeful lack of knowledge of Neptune.